Ireland in line for 1 GWh iron-air battery storage project – Energy Storage
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Ireland in line for 1 GWh iron-air battery storage project – Energy Storage
Posted by humphrey_horse
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Reverse rust based technology does somehow seem very appropriate in our climate lol
Intriguing tech though. It’s using far safer and more abundant materials than lithium based batteries.
NIMBYs will drive this into a decades long saga.
now couple that with hydrogen production and storage, and you might just be onto something…
The 4-day constant output is great.
“ While the price tag of the project has not been revealed“ Give me the price in Dail Bike Sheds
Article needs a bit of work:
>It launched trial production at its Form Factory 1 earlier this month. The facility will ultimately employ more than 750 people and will have an annual production capacity of 500 MW of batteries when operating at full capacity.
Maybe they meant to say 500 MW**h** of batteries – because that’s how you quantify battery capacity – but if so, that would mean that the planned Irish battery farm will require two full years of that factory’s production output. Let me try and find some real numbers …
It’ll probably be used to power one (or more) US tech company server farms based here.
I’m waiting for us to embrace LFTR nuclear…..😮💨
Interesting. When the we were advocating for battery storage with the last government even public opinion was against it. There were discussions about it all the time how nonsensical battery storage for Ireland is. Prices didn’t change much.
So what did?